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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  23-Feb-2008 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name CRANBERRY, TUZO Mining Division Greenwood
BCGS Map 082E035
Status Prospect NTS Map 082E06E
Latitude 049º 23' 30'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 08' 34'' Northing 5473205
Easting 344510
Commodities Gold, Silver Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Harper Ranch
Capsule Geology

The Cranberry showing is located 2.8 kilometres west of the confluence of Eugene (Cranberry) Creek with the West Kettle River, at 910 metres elevation. The showing is on the north side of the creek and was owned by T. Henderson in 1937.

Cranberry Ridge occupies a stretch of country about 13 kilometres long, between Carmi and the mouth of Eugene (Cranberry) Creek. The hostrock is dominantly granodiorite of the Westkettle batholith, except at the northern end where it is overlain by metamorphosed lavas, tuffs and sediments of the Permian Wallace Formation. The granodiorite has been intruded by dikes, largely of andesitic composition. The mineral occurrences differ from those in the Wallace Formation. Pyrite is the dominant sulphide with only minor galena and occasionally chalcopyrite and molybdenite. Pyrargyrite and tetrahedrite are absent. There is generally a higher gold content. Many claims have been staked, leased and prospected without any commercial tonnage developments.

Granodiorite is the hostrock of the Cranberry showing. Immediately to the south, granodiorite has been intruded by large, coarse grained, feldspar porphyry dikes.

Mineralization is hosted in a 20 to 30 centimetre wide quartz vein which dips 30 degrees north along the footwall of a 2.4 to 2.7 metre wide feldspar porphyry dike. Granodiorite in the footwall has been altered over 91 centimetres width. Mineralization appears to extend for about 7.6 metres before being obscured by overburden. The quartz vein is crystalline and vuggy with pyrite and specular hematite. About 137 metres west, a nearly flat quartz vein is 5 to 91 centimetres wide and carries pyrite. This vein has been traced another 91 metres farther west.

A sample taken in 1937 across 20 to 25 centimetres of the footwall quartz yielded 6.8 grams per tonne gold and 17.8 grams per tonne silver. A select sample of sulphides yielded 31.5 grams per tonne gold and silver (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1937, Part D - Special Report by M.S. Hedley).

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1937, Part D - Special Report by M.S. Hedley
EMPR ASS RPT 10044, 11357, 11360, 14317
EMPR OF 1989-5
EMPR PF (Sookochoff, L. (1991-03-06): Apolla Developements Prospectus for Y Claim Group)
GSC MAP 538A; 539A; 37-21; 15-1961; 1738A
GSC OF 481; 637; 1505A; 1565; 1969
GSC P 37-21
EMPR PFD 650

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